1 Jan, 2019: Bed, Glorious Bed (And Cats!)

12,341 Days Alive

5,383 Books to Read

6 Current Yarny Projects Still Pending Completion from 2018!

2 Books Being Read

2 Very Happy Kitties

1 AWOL Yule Gift

Ringing in the Gregorian New Year with my Darling Wife and my in-laws was fun! I fully admit I spent most of the evening chatting or crocheting! Steph spent most of the evening loving on Cousin Ashley’s daughter Mini, so her poor arms are sore.

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2019 Reading Challenge: Sweet Southern Reading Challenge

So! Here’s another follow up to today’s earlier post:

I’ll be taking part in the Sweet Southern Reading Challenge as part of my #200Books challenge.

It looks like I’ll be doing the “pitcher of sweet tea” level of the challenge being put on by Readeropolis!

Books:

This adds another ten books to my “to read” list. So if I knock them all out, that’s 19 of 200 done!

Riff Tracks and Renfield

12,338 Days Alive

5,352 Books on the Kindle

400 Approximate Miles of Driving For Tomorrow

28 Hours Left in 2018

22 Boxes, Bags, and Totes of Yarn in Current Inventory

3 Art Pieces to be Framed

2 Cats Being Jerkfaces

2 Friends Showered worth Belated Yule Gifts

1 Staggered Filet Triangle Shawl Nearly Complete

We did go see Bill6 and J today! Grabbed lunch at Outback, talked NYE plans, and of their most recent adventure.

Their cat, a beautiful bitey bastard of a Russian Grey is named Renfield. I have not taken a picture of him, because he is said bitey bastard.

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Fun Friday

12,236 Days Alive

5,345 Kindle Books to Read

103 Years to Read Them All at A Book Per Week

28 Rows Crocheted in The Staggered Filet Triangle Shawl

7 Breadsticks Eaten

6.5 Hours Slept

6 Hugs Given

2 Kinds of FroYo Mixed

1 Weighted Blanket Tossed Over My Brother Like Syrup Over a Pancake

1 Thing Forgotten

I got to see Duckie today! Our visits are few and far between and it was an absolutely amazing day.

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Toads Tonight

Days Alive:12,193

Hop toads: 1

Number of Photos Said Hop Toad Posed for When Asked: 3

Endometrial Polyp Being an Jerk: 1

Cats Whining at 11 Volume: 1 (Spock)

Paper Angels Made: 30

Days Since I’ve Touched my NaNovel: uh… four? Five?

Chicken Nuggets Eaten: 10

Words I’m Planning to Write this Weekend: 15k

Anyone who gets squicked out or triggered by talk of toads, menstruation, homelessness, or super bad insomnia, get thee hence.

You have been warned.

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Today is Not Pretty

Days alive: 12, 179

Day of NaNoWriMo: 1

Words Left to Write Today: 1,310

Words Left to Write for the Month: 49,643

Times I’ve Cried Today: 9

Days Till My Next Adventure: 4

Things I Did other than Write: 19

So far today, I’ve been bizarrely non-productive, or at least busy and not doing what I should be? I’m not having a great mental health day. I barely slept last night. I think I read most of a 100k word count fanfic because I couldn’t bloody sleep.

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